The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-08-20
NEED OF PUSH.

but according to Boston teacher OF
metaphysics, if you make up your
mind that you will have a front seat
in life you will attract to you the
powers that will carry you to the
front seat. Ii (in your mind) you take
the back seat, you can get only the
back seat. The confident, determined
mood of mind, steadily kept up,
brings 10 you other confident people.
Confidence IN the business world
means both cash and credit. There is
not half money enough in the country
for doing its daily business. What
is lacking in coin and bank notes is
made up by mems names written on
slips of paper promising to pay GER
tain sums in a certain time.
What keeps thousands of noses on
the grindstone of hard times is that
they have no confidence or courage In
themselves to take risks or response
bilities. They keep a poorhouse in
their minds, and live in it. They as
pire to be only a screw in the business
machine instead of striking out and
making a machine of their own.
Their real slavery is their own
minds. They never think, aspire,
plan, or demand in thought to be any
thing but screws. They think there
is no place for them at the head OF
the business. Their first and great
step toward staying permanently at
the tail OF business lies in thinking
that they must remain at the tail.
Because what is assured or kept
steadily in thought, always frames an
outward exact like of itself in what
can be seen. If you think clean
clothes, You will always have clean
clothes.
Always aim high. A workingman
ought never to look at millionaire's
palace without saying: Il am going
to have a palace like that" His say
ing this in dead earnest is one
thought among many Others which
pushes him forward and into his own
palace. Because it is your thought
that pushes you to do things. If you
are in the apple trade and a thought
suddenly comes to You that you can
sell hundred barrels of apples at a
certain place, you can't stay away
from that place. The idea will push
you on.
Real business does not lie alone in
being industrious. The goody-goody
books and maxims have only told half
the story about industry. A good
deal depends upon what you are in
dustrious about. IL you spend all
your time in polishing pans or black
ing your boots, your industry won't
carry you very high. The industri-
Gus mind in a rested body plans in an
hour what brings in more money than
a tin-pan polisher may earn in year.
People who work only or mostly
with their bodies have as good right
as the capitalist to work with their
minds. The world always wants new
er things, more curious things, more
improved things, more amusing
things. No workman in any trade,
any art, any profession, should be
content with doing what some one
has done before him, even though he
does it well. He should aim at doing
something better than any one has
done before him. When he can dc
this, he must next push it on the
worlds notice.
Push is talent as much as skill III
any art. You can commence pushing
by imagining yourself as a pusher
Keep yourself before yourself in your
mind as a pusher, and such frame OF
mind will at length make a push.
There is power in a continual imag.
ination of yourself in any certain
character which does make you more
and more like such character. Imap.
inc that the best belongs to you, and
You will find the best coming to you
Imagine the worst, you see yourself
in the poorhouse, and the poorhouse
comes TO you. Success, like charity
must commence at home in the mind.
Ii now you are compelled to live in
a poor room, and on poor fare, do SC
only through protest. Keep your
mind on the better room and better
fare. Don't SAY, ..'I 'spose 1 must al
ways take up with this" Say instead
Il am going to have better things
than these" You are then creating
for yourself strength, not weakness
You are then ever strengthening this
mexplicable mental attraction which
will bring these things to you.
Wonderful Cures.
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